847 search results for “intellectual islamic history” in the Staff website
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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John Islam-van Klinken
ICT Shared Service Centre
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
- Daring questions in Islam
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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Nico Kaptein
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought?
Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity?
In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 November, he successfully defended his dissertation in Islamic Studies.
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Said Reza Huseini
Faculty of Humanities
- Histories Connected
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Rehanna Nurmohamed
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars
It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.
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Alexander Odle
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Willem Leppink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeannette Kamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities